The daily Northtown Yard to Kansas City, KS priority manifest sweeps around a big curve as it heads into the small town of Holland.

After waiting for its eastbound counterpart to arrive, the westbound Northtown Yard to Kansas City, KS merchandise train heads over the ice chunks in the Mississippi River.

BNSF Railway train H-NTWKCK9-15 (Northtown, MN to Kansas City, KS high-priority merchandise) passes under the 12th Street Viaduct in the West Bottoms section of Kansas City, Missouri, on September... (more)

Priority merchandise for Kansas City, KS snakes its way into the busy yard in Willmar.

There is a train back there someplace...

The Northtown-Kick slowly passes over a broken rail while a track inspector stands guard in the background.

Priority merchandise from Northtown Yard clears the rails after an overnight snowfall in western Minnesota.

Sunset is approaching fast as priority merchandise makes its way east for Willmar.

Priority merchandise for Kansas City, KS heads west on a near perfect Christmas Eve in Minnesota.

It's an all EMD show on the Northtown-Kick which is heading along the south shore of Howard Lake.

The second unit was really smoking as this priority merchandise train from Northtown yard heads for Kansas City.